Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church located on Plassey Road in North Tidworth. It dates from the late 14th century and 15th century, with restorations in the 19th century, and likely contains earlier fabric in the tower. The church is built of flint and stone with stone quoins, which have been extensively repaired with brick from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It features tiled roofs and consists of a nave with a south porch and a west tower, along with a chancel and a north organ chamber. A vestry was added to the north side of the tower in the 19th century.

The nave has three-light windows with cinquefoiled cusping set within square heads, while the chancel has two-light cusped windows and a three-light east window. The tower is squat and broad, comprising three stages with an angle buttress on the southwest corner. The upper stages and the south window of the bell stage are finished in 17th to 18th-century brick quoining, topped with a brick parapet. The south porch, dating from the 15th century, has a 19th-century gable, a hollow chamfered outer door, a two-centred 14th-century inner door, and a trefoiled stoup to the right. The north door is blocked.

Inside, the nave is plastered and whitewashed, featuring a roof of four bays supported by heavy crown post trusses, moulded tie-beams, and open rafters. The lower door to the rood stair has a hollow chamfer and a niche with a cinquefoiled head and naive pilaster buttresses. There is a piscina on the south wall. The chancel arch has three respond shafts between hollow mouldings, while the tower arch is similar, with three respond columns and plain chamfered capitals, and an arch of three hollow orders. The chancel has three bays with an opening to the north organ chamber and a 19th-century roof on stone corbels, along with a trefoiled piscina that shows traces of red paint.

Notable fittings include a late 12th-century font that is square with semicircular aprons on each side, set on short columns and a stepped base. The pulpit, made of oak in the 19th century, is part-octagon and sits on a stone base. The rood beam, installed in 1919, is carved oak featuring vine scrolls and crestings, supporting a Crucifixion. The organ was built by Bevington and Sons.

Monuments within the church include a wall tablet made of white marble on black by Gibbs of Andover, located on the south side of the nave, dedicated to Sarah Taylor, who died in 1841. Under the tower, there is a framed brass commemorating Thomas Pierce, Dean of Sarum, who died in 1691, along with his French wife, erected by their son.